Prayer for Safe Return of Kidnapped Israelis

Posted on Jun 16, 2014

The Rabbinical Assembly released the following prayer (along with this statement), written by Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum and translated by Rabbi Peretz Rodman, for the safe return of the missing students.

God of Israel, Beneficent sovereign of all Creation, enable us now to have true faith and to pray and to call out to You with plea after plea, so that our cry might rise to the very Gates of Mercy, to Mercy itself. And all reality shall be turned around so that relief, rescue, and life may be the lot of those young men, Ya’akov Naftali ben Rahel (Frenkel), Gil-ad Micha’el ben Bat-Galim (Shaar) and Eyal ben Iris Teshura (Yifrach). Act on their behalf, Lord, take up their cause without delay, and may You grant them life and blessing forevermore. So may it be Your will,and let us say: Amen.